The political temperature has been rising and the seriousness of what was happening was only slowly appreciated in Washington.
A vigorous debate is in progress over the extent and seriousness of rising surface temperatures, the effects of past and future warming on human life, and the need for action to reduce future warming and deal with its consequences.
The death toll was expected to rise, considering the seriousness of some of the injuries, the police said.
Bissell's book, like Tewdwr Moss's, is the record of a trip that lasted only a few weeks, yet it's written with such panache and laden with so much information that it rises to real seriousness.
Please understand that I am not downplaying the hardships of student loan debt or the seriousness of the rising cost of education.
Toward the end of his career Boucher came under criticism from a rising generation of neo-classicists for a lack of moral seriousness and disconnection from reality.
There is fun – including a report of Millwall spooked into conceding an equaliser by the mere sight of the legendary defender Harry Cripps, their former team-mate, rising from the Charlton bench and removing his tracksuit – and there is seriousness.
From there on, the premiums rise according to the seriousness of the condition.
In August, the Public Works Department briefed the City Council on the seriousness of the situation, and Mayor Paul D. Fraim has acknowledged that if the sea continues rising, the city might actually have to create "retreat" zones.
In a sign of the government's seriousness, a new glass-and-marble high-rise home for a ruble-denominated commodity exchange is rising this spring in a prestigious district in St .Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city after Moscow.
